About-
​Shelbie has dedicated her life to learn integrative approaches that honor how horses think, learn, and feel. She aims to bring patient, kind work for the horse and aid the rider to understand their horses through feel and intention, bringing better unification between them. This desire to understand the entire picture has led Shelbie to study both Classical Masters and Integrative Bodywork.
Shelbie was born and raised in Anchorage, AK. She fell in love with horses in one of the more challenging places to care and work with them. She began lessons and soon had her first horse, Beau. Shelbie became active in the hunter/ jumper show ring, and soon the dressage ring as well. She claimed champion for low working hunters, long stirrup equitation, and champion at First level dressage. The two also received high point champion for the state of Alaska, 2006.
Shelbie received her level 4 in CHA and began Pony Club, achieving the HB level. Through Pony Club and the many wonderful instructors that came to Alaska, she found a love for eventing, which began to have more clinic and shows in Alaska. During this time she was elected to be a junior board member of the Alaska Dressage Association, and rode with the clinicians that came to judge shows.
Through many great and hard learned experiences with her mare Neira, she began exploring other methodologies and schools of thought pertaining to horse training, husbandry, and ethology. She followed the desire for information out of Alaska and to British Colombia to be 1 of the first students of Philippe Karl's School in North America. She committed to her studies for 7 years in this methodology, before her curiosity took her further south, attending clinic, theories, and conferences.
While in school she made a good friend In Mikaila Herold, they have been working together in Florida since 2018.

To best understand what may benefit your horse the most, Shelbie has pursued education in a variety of bodywork including Masterson Method, Orthobionomy, Myofacia Release, Anatomy, Acupuncture, Reiki, Hoofcare, and Equine dentistry.

To unlock freedom in the rider’s body and increase clarity for the horse, Shelbie has sought education in multiple styles of body awareness such as the Anat Baniel Method, Feldenkrais, Peggy Cummings/ Connected Riding, Thai Chi For the Equestrian, and Yorkshire Riding Centre.
She spent 7 years as a student of the Ecole de Lègereté learning from former Écuyer of the Carde Noir, Philippe Karl, and his students.
Curiosity drives her to find creative ways to design patient, kind programs for the horse. She appreciates that no two rider and horse combinations are the same, and uses these integrative modalities to bring a unique approach to each individual pair


Update 2026:
Shelbie is currently the barn manager at The Oaks Equestrian Center in Lake City, Florida. A 33 stall barn on a 7mile trail system. 4 training arenas including a covered arena. Limited space for horses in training. Haul ins welcome for lessons and schooling. 




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PictureHannah trail riding in Florida